2018/12/31 by John J. Sherlock, John Sherlock, Manoj Muniswamaiah +6 · 4 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Business #Computer science #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Open Source Software Innovations #Open source #Open source software #Operating system #Other Computer Science (cs.OH) #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Software #Software Engineering Research #cs.OH
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.11697
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
arxiv created 2018/12/31 · openalex publication_date 2018/12/31 · arxiv updated 2019/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Open Source Software (OSS) history is traced to initial efforts in 1971 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab, the initial goals of OSS around Free vs. Freedom, and its evolution and impact on commercial and custom applications. Through OSS history, much of the research and has been around contributors (suppliers) to OSS projects, the commercialization, and overall success of OSS as a development process. In conjunction with OSS growth, intellectual property issues and licensing issues still remain. The consumers of OSS, application architects, in developing commercial or internal applications based upon OSS should consider license risk as they compose their applications using Component Based Software Development (CBSD) approaches, either through source code, binary, or standard protocols such as HTTP.